What’s new in Azure Monitor – Overview

Azure Monitor maximizes the availability and performance of applications by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from cloud and on-premises environments. It helps understanding how applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.

Get the granular, real-time monitoring data you need—all in one place!

No upfront cost

No termination fees

Pay only for what you need

Azure Monitoring Pricing:

Log Analytics

Log Analytics is billed per gigabyte (GB) of data ingested into the service.

1. The first 5 GB of data ingested to the Azure Log Analytics service every month is offered free.

2. Every GB of data ingested into your Azure Log Analytics workspace is retained at no charge for the first 31 days.

Metrics

A metric represents a set of time-series. You are billed based on the number of time-series monitored and API calls made.

Standard metrics are available for free and include select metrics originating from Azure resources, services and first party solutions.

Unified Monitoring:

A common platform for all metrics, logs and other monitoring telemetry

High-level view of Azure Monitor:

All data collected by Azure Monitor fits into one of two fundamental types Metricsand Logs.

Metrics: Numerical values that describe some aspect of a system at a particular point in time. They are lightweight and capable of supporting near real-time scenarios.

Logs: Telemetry such as events and traces are stored as logs in addition to performance data so that it can all be combined for analysis.

Data Driven Insights

Azure Monitor for VMs:

Azure Monitor VM insights monitors your Azure virtual machines (VM) at scale by analysing the performance and health of your Windows and Linux VMs, including their different processes and interconnected dependencies on other resources and external processes. The solution includes support for monitoring performance and application dependencies for VMs hosted on-premises or another cloud provider.

Challenges in VM Monitoring

1. Figure out what and how to Monitor

2. Disambiguate the issues in the VM, caused due to its usage or Azure itself